Essential movies to watch
Just name the movies you think everyone should have seen at least once in their lifetime. Go!
Just name the movies you think everyone should have seen at least once in their lifetime. Go!
Edit: Can't believe I left these out:
I fucking love In the Loop, but it took me a few viewings to understand what the hell was going on. I should watch it again.
Shoutout for mentioning Brick. Modern noir masterpiece I never see mentioned online. Great, eclectic list overall!
Most of mine are already listed but here's a couple more.
Army of Darkness
Dogma
The Protector
Clue
Full Metal Jacket
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
Howl's Moving Castle
Four Rooms
Pulp Fiction
That might explain why I didn’t like it too much. I saw it last year, it probably hits too close to home :/
Big Trouble in Little China
Princess Bride
Romancing the Stone
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
No particular order. Also, it’s movies that I watched, can’t speak on essentials that I might be missing.
It’s kinda hard to make a list on essentials tho. Because your personal taste obviously plays a big role. I can’t see my girlfriend liking more than 10 percent of those…
Schindlers List
Gladiator
No country for old men
The grand Budapest hotel
The big Lebowski
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers
Star Wars (the original one)
Requiem for a dream
Pulp fiction
The good, the bad, the ugly
The lives of others
La vita é Bella
All quiet on the western front (1930 version)
The dark knight
The Truman Show
2001: Space odyssey
Alien
7 Samurai
Princess Mononoke
Trainspotting
Boyz N the Hood
Scarface
The Godfather 1, 2
The Matrix
Clockwork Orange
Shutter Island
Kingdom of Heaven
Wolf of Wall Street
Honorable mentions because they are popular and everybody always talks about them (I like a lot of them, too. Don’t consider them essentials tho):
Inception
Interstellar
Fight Club
Harry Potter
Return of the King
Rest of Star Wars (whatever people consider the good ones at last)
Saving Private Ryan
Django Unchained
Toy Story
The Lion King
Listing a bunch of decaprio movies and not adding Romeo and Juliet feels wrong. Everyone should experience it at least once.
Fair enough, I haven’t seen it yet. Also didn’t really notice how Decaprio heavy the list was until your comment.
Big Trouble in Little China
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil
A Clockwork Orange
12 Monkeys
The Abominable Dr.Phibes
3 from Gilliam? Agreed, tho Might as well just watch everything he's associated with.
Fisher King & Time Bandits are lovely. Zero Theorem, the Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
All the Monty Python, of course.
Clockwork Orange was pivotal in my late teens, early twenties.
Eraserhead as well, other Lynch works: Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & Lost Highway hold solid ground for me.
Just off the top of my head: Alien and Aliens are wonderful, Apocalypse Now needs no introduction, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and finally Oppenheimer, which is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion (what can I say, I'm a sucker for an incredibly well-told story).
12 Angry Men
My Neighbour Totoro
Memento
Wall-E
The Truman Show
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
My neighbor Totoro is a kids movie and probably one of the best one there is because it's about them, it's not a princess movie, the others aren't really aimed at kids so they can't really be compared.
My Neighbour Totoro is unique. In this film kids actually act and talk like kids. It is extremely imaginative and magical while not trying to be epic. It treats the audience as intelligent, curious people, giving a lot of quiet thinking space in between scenes.
It is a masterpiece of film making. The other Studio Ghibili films are good, but Totoro remains to be my favourite.
I watch eternal sunshine most times i see it on, but some days I just don't have the energy. It's so good, but also exhausting.